Sale of a Slave (3.114)

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Recently a number of inscriptions from T ī l Barsip (Tel Aḫmar) have been published.﻿1 Most of the Neo-Assyrian cuneiform documents from the site seem to come from a single archive, that of a man named Hanni.

Interestingly, three of the tablets (13, 18 and 20) mention a man named Issār-dūri who is further identified as “the son of Samiraya” (“the Samarian”).﻿2 Two of the other personal names i…